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Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, ’Scottishness’, British Gothic, cultural and nation... more

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The contributors in this collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects, as subver... more

Best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) had ... more

The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of... more

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Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argue... more

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PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardene... more

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Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / S... more

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variet... more

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve ... more

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This book is the second of two volumes in an edited collection that brings together the unpublished ... more

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler o... more

Inspired Georgia is a unique collection of Georgia s contemporary poets and photographers that engag... more

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Originally published in 1928, this book presents the text of The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. An editori... more

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrot... more

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrot... more

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World... more

Literature is a complex and multifaceted expression of our humanity of a kind that is instructively ... more

Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history,... more

This collection studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African tr... more

The fifty-ninth volume of Studies in Bibliography continues its tradition of presenting a wide range... more

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Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French applies the methods of ecocritical inquiry to French ... more

This international collection of essays gives fresh insight into the lives and perspectives of the m... more

Creating Albert Camus: Foundations & Explorations in his Philosophy of Communication contributes to ... more

An early collection of Kahlil Gibran s writings, showcasing the many styles of this prolific thinker... more

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. mode... more

An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how... more

Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of ... more

This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature. Recen... more

The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension -- hist... more

Christine de Pizan wrote voluminously, commenting on various aspects of the late-medieval society in... more

Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the curr... more

Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness,... more

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